yellowstone national park usa Big Male Elk

He snuck up on me, not the other way around! Looks like an ad for an insurance company.

comments appreciated.

Perfect capture anolg with an excellent light looks very solid and powerful. I like your composition a lot, although it feels like there still was not quite enough DOF to wash-out the background... since you get a lot of fuzz of twigs.

Perhaps approaching closer to a deer and hence increasing the bokeh would help... yet, I consider this photo as of 7/7 of aethetics.

P.S. Grass on the bottom of a picture creates a very cool effect.

Best regards, Alibek.